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Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?
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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
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To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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I enjoy learning technical details.
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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
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World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
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We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
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